IMS Environment

IMS Environment studies how environments are constituted by media as a means for sign action – semiosis – and as technical infrastructures for experience. We analyze how these two kinds of media interact to produce the webs of organic and inorganic matter around us that mean something, that have a claim on us, and that call upon us to do, experience, or think something. 

IMS Environment is an international cluster that brings together scholars from different disciplines and institutions to offer critical and historical perspectives on human environments as they are being reshaped today by the integration of computational media and the ravaging powers of extractive capitalism, by stories we tell and read, and by images we produce and perceive. Understanding our environments, we understand ourselves.   

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